{"id":5732,"date":"2021-08-03T15:47:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5732"},"modified":"2021-08-03T15:47:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:47:34","slug":"americans-cant-travel-because-state-department-employees-wont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5732","title":{"rendered":"Americans Can&#8217;t Travel Because State Department Employees Won&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Do you know who&nbsp;<em>is<\/em>&nbsp;back in the office, unlike State Dept. employees who&#8217;ve had access to COVID vaccines longer than most of the rest of us?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2021\/07\/06\/return-to-work-offices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scores of millions of Americans<\/a>, including many who would like to visit their relatives for the first time in a year and a half. Compounding that failure to put asses back in office chairs is the fact that, as Arndt says, &#8220;passport specialists need to be physically present in the office to process the passports. They are not processing remotely or from home.&#8221;&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/07\/22\/americans-cant-travel-because-state-department-employees-wont-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/07\/22\/americans-cant-travel-because-state-department-employees-wont-work\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you know who is back in the office, unlike State Dept. employees who&#8217;ve had access to COVID vaccines longer than most of the rest of us? Scores of millions of Americans, including many who would like to visit their relatives for the first time in a year and a half. Compounding that failure to put asses back in office chairs is the fact that, as Arndt says, &#8220;passport specialists need to be physically present in the office to process the passports. They are not processing remotely or from home.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,885],"class_list":["post-5732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5733,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions\/5733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}